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Precepts.
Precepts for the undermentioned amounts have been made upon the Overseers of the
Poor:Sewers.
Lighting. Paving, etc. Total.
Half-year to 29th September, 1897 £1,000 1,000 14,000 16,000
Half-year to 25th March, 1898 1,325 1,100 15,275 17,700
£2,325 £2,100 £29,275 £33,700
On 20th April, 1897, the Vestry Resolved, upon the recommendation of the Finance
Committee—That the Overseers be requested to have printed upon the back of the rate
application paper, the various amounts under their respective headings in respect to the rates
levied, together with the rate in the £ represented by such amounts.
Rights of Way.
On 2nd November, 1897, the Vestry Resolved— That an iron gate be erected at Acorn
Wharf Stairs, and two keys obtained, one to be placed in charge of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board at South Wharf, and the other of the Surveyor, and that a notice be painted up to the
effect that the key can be obtained at the Board's Wharf, or the Town Hall.
St. Mary's Church.
On 3rd August, 1897, the Chairman of the Vestry reported that he had received a gift
from a lady, to be laid out in the purchase of a painting to be hung in the Parish Church,
as a memorial of her deceased parents, that he proposed to instruct an artist to paint a copy
of the picture called "The Entombment of Christ" by Titian, the original of which is in the
Louvre Gallery in Paris, and had submitted a photo thereof to the Bishop, who had approved
of the subject, but stated it would be necessary to obtain a faculty therefor, that he had
consulted with the Churchwardens in the matter, the Junior of whom (Mr. Higgs) approved
of the proposal, and joined with him in asking for the approval of the Vestry thereto.